August 17, 2017updated 14 Sep 2017 12:51pm

Web ABCs: Sun fastest-growing national press website as daily regionals also make big gains

The Sun was the fastest growing online news brand in July, according to ABC figures, boosting the number of daily average unique browsers on its website to 5.06m – up 96 per cent year-on-year.

Mail Online, the UK’s most-visited news website, grew online readership by 1 per cent year-on-year to 15.03m.

This is more than double nearest rival The Independent, despite the online-only title increasing the number of daily average unique browsers by 54 per cent year-on-year to 6.14m.

The Guardian is not currently audited by ABC.

Metro’s online readership also rose, climbing by 67 per cent year-on-year to 2.42m.

Among the regional daily websites, the Coventry Telegraph was the biggest climber. Its daily average unique browsers were up 70 per cent year-on-year to 108,731.

The Birmingham Mail was up 52 per cent year-on-year to 404,988.

Publication	Total circulation July 2017	% change year-on-year	% change month-on-month
MailOnline	15,027,746	1.01	-2.46
The Independent	6,140,183	53.73	-0.27
Mirror Online	5,236,761	-0.72	-7.18
The Sun	5,060,122	95.81	-4.2
Metro	2,423,735	67.05	-9.44
express.co.uk	2,262,239	28.37	8.16
dailystar.co.uk	965,174	3.01	6.07
Manchester Evening News	956,752	16.3	-2.79
Evening Standard	845,288	39.3	-14.99
Liverpool Echo	743,349	14	4.34
Wales Online	443,455	16.3	3.21
Birmingham Mail	404,988	51.74	-1.12
Chronicle Live	312,834	15.71	5.14
Bristol Post	166,126		21.33
Hull Daily Mail	132,135		-1.3
GazetteLive	131,308	13.49	4.32
Daily Post (Wales)	125,115	46.9	-4.2
Nottingham Post	121,155		4.93
Coventry Telegraph	108,731	70.37	25.96
Plymouth Herald	102,311		-11.32
Derby Telegraph	97,395		4.89
Leicester Mercury	95,739		7.96
Stoke Sentinel	92,751		-3.5
Huddersfield Daily Examiner	84,019	41.36	-1.75
Get Surrey	78,721	48.06	-3.95
Cambridge News	67,304		-23.45
Get Reading	57,317	9.28	6.06
Grimsby Telegraph	43,600		-8.36
Visiter.co.uk	18,217	71.34	6.91